Mark crossposted message read?

Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read in
all groups when read in first group?

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Stian

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

On 11/05/2007 09:29, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Stian to
generate the following:? :
> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read in
> all groups when read in first group?
>
>
a long-wanted "dream" of many-a-poster!

reg

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

Stian wrote:
> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read in
> all groups when read in first group?
>

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

squaredancer wrote:
> On 11/05/2007 09:29, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Stian to
> generate the following:? :
>> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read
>> in all groups when read in first group?
>>
>>
> a long-wanted "dream" of many-a-poster!
>
> reg
Sad thing is that Communicator 4.x had this very ability.

Another reason developers of Mozilla/ Thunderbird should have parsed the
old code to see how it was done there. Then ported it over.

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

*-* On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:19:38 +0200,
*-* In Article rMmdnbDXXvaMqNnbnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@mozilla.org,
*-* squaredancer wrote
*-* About Re: Mark crossposted message read?
> On 11/05/2007 09:29, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Stian to
> generate the following:? :
>> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages
>> read in all groups when read in first group?
> a long-wanted "dream" of many-a-poster!

IIRC, Netscape Navigator v2.02 used to do that, at least in the
OS/2 version.

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

On 11/05/2007 17:14, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused David E. Ross
to generate the following:? :
> Stian wrote:
>
>> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read in
>> all groups when read in first group?
>>
>>
>
> See bug #43278 at .
> This was submitted almost 7 years ago.
>
>
and will probably *remain there* for the next 7 years... the devs
probably think of it as an "enhancement" rather than a bug...

reg

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

squaredancer wrote:
> On 11/05/2007 17:14, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused David E. Ross
> to generate the following:? :
>> Stian wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any add-ons or other ways to mark crossposted messages read in
>>> all groups when read in first group?
>>>
>>>
>> See bug #43278 at .
>> This was submitted almost 7 years ago.
>>
>>
> and will probably *remain there* for the next 7 years... the devs
> probably think of it as an "enhancement" rather than a bug...
>
> reg

The problem is not that it might be an enhancement. The problem is a
general antipathy amng developers against cross-posting. You can see
that in comments in the various news.mozilla.org newsgroups.

I sometimes get the feeling that the developers never look at newsgroups
on the general public news servers. If they did, they might notice that
the Big-8 Management Board (in charge of maintaining the Usenet
hierarchy) supports cross-posting of messages involving the creation and
deletion of existing newsgroups in order to ensure a thorough public
discussion of those actions; while the initial messages are
cross-posted, they are always marked "Follow-up to:
news.groups.proposals". Other instances of legitimate (and limited)
cross-posting can be cited.

Re: Mark crossposted message read?

On 12/05/2007 1:45 PM, _David E. Ross_ spoke thusly:
> The problem is not that it might be an enhancement. The problem is a
> general antipathy amng developers against cross-posting. You can see
> that in comments in the various news.mozilla.org newsgroups.

What comments? From what I've seen, devs do more cross-posting than
users; and as long as the logic behind the cross-post is obvious, no-one
has any problems with it.
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Chris Ilias
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